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The Two Sides of the Bed is a slick and fast-paced romantic sex farce that throws sexual conventions into total chaos! In ultra-hip Madrid, matters of sex and sexuality are getting very...

With an “Almodovarian” twist and the flamboyance of The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert , director Ramón Salazar’s 20 Centimetres tells the story of Marieta (Mónica Cervera)...

In this searing urban drama, a teenager’s 48-hour release from reform school to attend his brother’s wedding instead turns into a weekend of fun, violence, sex and crime.

Pablo is a young Argentinean gay man searching for love in this film from director Anahi Berneri. Sadly, the AIDS-stricken Pablo has only a limited time in which to find a partner and, as his...

Bristling with potent erotic imagery, this exquisite film from Spanish director Bigas Luna tells the tale of a young girl's sexual enlightenment. When fifteen-year-old Lulu succumbs to the...

From acclaimed Spanish director Pedro Almodovar, a stunning valentine to femininity in all its disguises, motherhood in all its glory and to classic Hollywood melodramas and their diva actresses....

The first box set in a series that collects the most outrageous works of the prolific Spanish director.

Features four films from director Pedro Almodovar. In 'Flower Of My Secret' a fiction writer on the verge of a nervous breakdown, and unable to turn to her family for help, finds solace in a...

Three stories: Octavio is a young aimless loser who lives in a barrio and has an obsessive crush on his sister-in-law, Susana, who is married to Ramiro, an abusive hoodlum. Meanwhile, Daniel, a...

Starring the mouth-wateringly sexy Gael Garcia Bernal (Y tu Mama Tambien and Motor Cycle Diaries), Bad Education narrates the reunion of two gay young men in early 80s Madrid, as the city starts...

This fascinating and thought-provoking documentary from internationally acclaimed filmmaker Julio Medem (Sex and Lucia) explores the unique language and long-held traditions of the mythical land...

Sexually explicit and visually arresting Mexican drama. Marcos and his wife kidnap a baby for the ransom money but it all goes horribly wrong when the baby dies.

This warm, funny, sexy and intelligent film of a bearish gay man raising his sister's son is an engaging story the reinterprets the idea of "family."

Winner of numerous awards including an Oscar for Best Foreign Film, Belle Epoque is a sensual, unhibited comedy starring Penelope Cruz. Set in a sun-drenched Spanish countryside of 1931, the...

The director of Historias Minimas returns with another modest story set against the vast expanses of Patagonia. Juan is a middle-aged mechanic made redundant after 20 years. One day he helps a...

The fourth film from one of the most interesting and successful of the young directors forming the so-called 'New Wave' in Argentine Cinema, PABLO TRAPERO follows on from the startling EL...

Murders, steamy bathhouses, and lovably sexy characters set the stage for comedy and melodrama in Spain's "gayborhood." Evoking the comic insanity of early Pedro Almodovar, Boystown is a raucous...

This mostly silent, gay-themed Mexican movie is an artful look at relationships and sex between men, and is filmed in the breathtaking surroundings of the National Autonomous University in Mexico...

Sex and Lucia's Paz Vega plays the infamous nineteenth-century Spanish siren in this steamy adaptation from the visionary director Vicente Aranda.

From acclaimed Mexican horror maestro, Guillermo Del Toro, comes The Devil's Backbone, a truly terrifying spine-tingler combining state of the art special effects with towering performances from...

On the eve of her wedding to Barnaby (James D'Arcy), Carmen (Natalia Verbeke) recklessly kisses an attractive stranger, Kit (Gael Garcia Bernal). Having recently fled a violent and volatile...

Winner of 4 Spanish GOYA awards, this prize-winning debut feature deals with the drama of young urban lives set on the streets of Madrid.

Zapa is a young locksmith who works in a quiet, sleepy part of Buenos Aires. Life is slow and the hours pass slowly untill one day he is sent on a job opening a safe in an office only to find...

A newly ordained priest is sent to a rural village in Mexico to help the ageing priest run his church. Whilst there he meets a beautiful young woman who seems to be obsessed with the church and...

Mallorca, 1936. The Spanish Civil War divides the local community with an orgy of bloodlust and brutal revenge executions. Ramallo, Tur and Francisca are childhood friends whose lives are...

Winner of a host of international film awards including a Goya Award for Best Lead Actor (Eduard Fernández), and Best Film at the 2002 Fantasporto Festival, FAUSTO 5.0 is a contemporary...

Spanish cinema's genius of outrageous humour, Alex de la Iglesia, returns with the hysterical comedy The Ferpect Crime, about a suave playboy and women's clothing section clerk who falls into...

Things get sticky when you're a teenager. Two teenage boys get high and get off with each other.....teenage coming of age/coming out set against the gloriously photographed backdrop of Patagonia.

Ruthless stud Benito Gonzalez (Javier Bardem wants wealth, women, and to erect a skyscraper in his own honour. In order to achieve this he marries a sophisticated daughter of a rich banker,...

Ruthless stud Benito Gonzalez (Javier Bardem wants wealth, women, and to erect a skyscraper in his own honour. In order to achieve this he marries a sophisticated daughter of a rich banker,...

A charming and affecting tale charting the fortunes of three small town heroes pursuing their dreams, Carlos Sorin's Historias Minimas offers further evidence of the current riches to be found in...

Headstrong senorita Silvia (Penelope Cruz) becomes pregnant to village Mummy's-boy Jose (Jordi Mulla). Silvia's father has left town and her mother Carmen (Anna Galiena) is forced to become the...

A man leaves Mexico city for the remote countryside where he intends to end his life. There he finds lodging with an old Indian woman, Ascen, in her ramshackle home overlooking a desolate canyon....

Black comedy from Pedro Almodovar about a make-up artist and her relationship with a philandering American writer living in Madrid. Features the usual roster of Almodovar comic stalwarts such as...

An engaging, funny, teen coming-of-age story set against the idyllic backdrop of Sitges. Dani's parents are away for the summer, and when his friend Nico arrives to stay, Dani is keen to help him...

Lucrecia Martel's outstanding new film is an enegmatic and absorbing tale about the temptation of good and the evil it causes. Sixteen year old schoolgirl Amalia (Maria Alché) lives with her...

A camp melodrama/comedy about Sexilia (a nymphomaniac), Sadec (a gay Islamic terrorist), Riza Niro (the son of the emperor of Tiran), and Queti (the daughter of a dry-cleaner). When Riza Niro...

"There is no better way to start a film than to have a young naked Spanish man having a ten minute fiddle! And then to fill the rest of your movie with a murderous, tempestuous gay love affair...

A delicious love story with exquisite comedy adapted from Laura Esquivel's best selling novel. Young Tita is forced to nurse her sick mother and, until she dies, cannot marry the man she loves -...

Lovers of the Arctic Circle is a love story about Otto and Ana, stretching from when they were just two kids, to the abyss of Finland's arctic circle. The story goes full circle around a fleeting...

Two children from different ends of the social spectrum become friends and witness the events that unfold in Chile under Pinochet.

Maria Alvarez (Catalina Sandino), a bright, spirited 17-year old, lives with three generations of her family in a cramped house in rural Colombia. Desperate to leave her job stripping thorns from...

This twisted, brave, funny film from Pedro Almodóvar takes an unflinching look at the link between sex, death, and religion. Antonio Banderas stars as Ángel, a sensitive student of matador...

It's 1952 and 23-year-old Che Guevara sets off on a 1939 Norton 500 motorcycle with his friend Alberto Granado. This is a poetic adaption of the diaries that Che made on that epic eight month journey.

Mop-haired hustler Victor plies his trade amidst the seedy, nocturnal denizens of Buenos Aires with the grim threat of violence simmering just below the surface. Threatening strangers, an...

From talented young Argentinian director Fabian Bielinsky comes this thrilling and widely praised cinematic debut. Set in Buenos Aires over the course of 24 hours, Nine Queens is a taut, highly...

Visionary director Guillermo del Toro creates a unique, richly imagined epic with Pan's Labyrinth, a gothic fairy tale set against the postwar era of Fanco's Spain. Pan's Labyrinth unfolds...

Available for the first time in the UK in it's original, uncut form; Alex De La Iglesia's cult movie is as shocking, frenetic and as exciting as ever.

'The Red Squirrel' is an anti-macho parable by Spanish director Julio Medem; an intriguing story that draws its characters and audience into a complex game of lies and deceit, it demonstrates the...

A close-knit community in the south-west of Sicily has been unchanged for centuries. Here, husbands go to sea and wives work packing fish while their children play among the cliffs. It's a way of...

Lucía, a young waitress in Madrid, seeks refuge on a quiet, secluded Mediterranean island after the loss of her long-time boyfriend, a writer. There, bathed in an atmosphere of fresh air,...

At age 42, Rafael Belvedere is having a crisis. He lives in the shadow of his father, he feels guilty about rarely visiting his aging mother, his ex-wife says he doesn't spend enough time with...

Matthew Goode from Matchpoint bares all in this dramedy based on Fernando Colomo's tale of an English writer in early 20th Century Spain.

Set in rural Spain just after Franco's victory in the Spanish Civil War, Victor Erice's debut film The Spirit Of The Beehive is a remarkable story of a child's innocence amid post-war traumas....

This acclaimed, Oscar-nominated gay film set in Cuba follows the unlikely friendship between David (Vladimir Cruz), an uptight conservative, and Diego (Jorge Perrugoria), his flamboyantly gay...

Marcia, a frumpy lingerie sales girl from Buenos Aires, lives a solitary life of dreary routine after having been dumped by her boyfriend. But soon her dreams of romance are unexpectedly answered...

With precision and finesse, director Miguel Bardem (actor Javier Bardem's brother) delivers a stylish, Grifters-style thriller that would make David Mamet proud. The slick, handsome Ernesto ...

"Tesis" focuses on Angela (Ana Torrent) who is a student at the School of Mass Communications. Angela is doing her thesis on media violence and society. She asks her advisor Professor Figueroa ...

Antonio Banderas caught the world's attention with his portrayal of Ricky, an orphaned mental patient who stalks and kidnaps Marina (Victoria Abril), a porn actress and junkie, in order to make...

Completing Bigas Luna's saucy Spanish trilogy that began with Jamon Jamon and Golden Balls, The Tit and the Moon tells of a young boy's search for the perfect breast. Set in a colourful Catalan...

It's 1973, Franco's on his way out, and Spain is changing with the times. Alberto Lopez is a failing door-to-door encyclopaedia salesman on the brink of financial disaster until he and his lovely...

Director Julio Medem presents a saga spanning over half a century of the twisted goings on between two families in Northern Spain. Carmelo Gomez and Kandito Uranga star as the fathers, sons and...

Gloria is a typical Madrid housewife with problems. Her husband is obsessed with an ex-Nazi chanteuse; of her two sons, one has discovered the benefits of dope dealing while the other is a...

"Bold, brazen and ultimately beautiful. It's also without doubt the sexiest film you'll see this year." - Uncut

The odds were stacked against Ramón from the start. He was always an outsider, and to keep himself sane, he lived by a strict mantra: Don't Fight, Don't Snitch and Don't Cry. When his family...